Synonym: bind, catch, clasp, clip, crook, fasten, hanger, latch, snap, snare, trap, wire. Similar words: shoot, school, choose, shoot up, shooting, at school, in school, likelihood. Meaning: [hʊk] 
n. 1. a catch for locking a door 2. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook 3. anything that serves as an enticement 4. a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something 5. a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something 6. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer 7. a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent 8. a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket. v. 1. fasten with a hook 2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price 3. make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle 4. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left 5. take by theft 6. make off with belongings of others 7. hit with a hook 8. catch with a hook 9. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) 10. secure with the foot 11. entice and trap 12. approach with an offer of sexual favors.
n. 1. a catch for locking a door 2. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook 3. anything that serves as an enticement 4. a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something 5. a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something 6. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer 7. a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent 8. a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket. v. 1. fasten with a hook 2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price 3. make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle 4. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left 5. take by theft 6. make off with belongings of others 7. hit with a hook 8. catch with a hook 9. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) 10. secure with the foot 11. entice and trap 12. approach with an offer of sexual favors. 
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(91) Eager to hook into a career but can't find one right for you?
(92) Taking a tight grip on the hook, he began to pull it towards himself.
(93) Hook this over the bedpost and pull to tighten.
(94) A change of clothing also lets you off the hook.
(95) The address hook Despite first appearances, Internet email addresses aren't so hard to recall.
(96) Jab-jab, left hook, my opening left hands moving him to the right, to meet my right cross.
(97) About the time this outcry was gathering momentum, a curve ball landed like a left hook.
(98) But there is usually some semblance of coherence to the proceedings, and a proper hook to draw us on.
(99) With my head down I manoeuvred the metal ring over the iron hook which was attached to the wall bracket.
(100) There is nothing to hook your fingers over and allow you to relax, so keep cool and keep going.
(101) By hook or by crook, football is being called to account for the years of profligacy.
(102) She hung her bathrobe on its hook near the door, aligned her slippers at the foot of the bed.
(103) Enter Templar, a master thief recruited by the aspiring czar to obtain the formula by hook or crook.
(104) By hook or by crook make sure that two members of staff make visits during the working day.
(105) Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,(sentencedict.com/hook.html) there will be a fish. Ovid 
(106) If Glenn McGrath, arguably currently the world's finest fast bowler, drops a short one, cut or hook him.
(107) The hook is attached to a conventional rig, or a bolt-rig, of which more later.
(108) He had no ambitions to play Hook and certainly not at four days' notice.
(109) Jesse was waiting, a long hook dangling from his hand.
(110) He was in bed, fully clothed, feeling a hangover latch on hook by hook.
(111) Since New Hampshire Bush's campaign has swayed and buckled like a boxer who has been hit with a perfect left hook.
(112) And that is why a brief prayer to St Zeno never goes amiss, when you go fishing with a hook.
(113) Some live life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the book and get stuck by the hook. Break free today, let conscience guide your way. RVM
(114) The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters.
(115) Remember, always do your best, don't let them hook you, however tempting the bait.
(116) Others have all-in-one hook gliders which clip on to the face of the track and eliminate the use of separate curtain hooks.
(117) Maybe he would hook Lincoln with one of the antlers.
(118) If she set her mind on something, then she had to acquire it,[sentencedict.com] by hook or by crook.
(119) The paternoster I use is the genuine article, which entails a long bomb length and a short hook length.
(120) Push behind latches. 6 Hook up neckband on first row, push behind latches and remove waste and nylon cord.
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